Salary Cap Set At $133 Million

Well it is now official that the NFL Salary Cap for 2014 is a whopping $133,000,000. How it got there who knows. Its hard to imagine that revenues will skyrocket that much this season, but I guess increases in TV revenue are on their way in. Maybe that CBS deal had a major impact for the Thursday night games.

With the salary cap being set we can officially set the franchise tags, transition tags, and RFA tender numbers. Remember that the transition tag is the 2015 option value for any 2011 rookie drafted in the top 10. The tag numbers were provided on Twitter by Albert Breer. The RFA tags are my own calculations/estimates.

In addition the increase in cap is going to lead (or at least should lead) to the first increase in rookie signing bonus money, which has been frozen at 2011 levels for the prior two drafts. I’ll put some rough estimates up for those over the weekend. The signing bonus money that can be spent on undrafted free agents should now be $81,922.

I’m pretty sure you’ve posted when teams need to be cap-compliant. There are several different measurement dates with varying criteria. Any chance you can point my to that column? Also, any chance you can maintain reference articles in a separate tab for easy/permanent access? Thanks. You do really good work.

Featured Contract

Russell Wilson signed a four year contract extension with the Seahawks worth $87.6 million on July 31, 2015. According to SI's Peter King, Wilson received a $31 million signing bonus. Per Ian Rapoport of NFL.com the following tweet has the breakdown of the Wilson extension which we are using to estimate the cap charges at the moment. Wilson received $31.7 million fully guaranteed upon signing. His 2016, 2017, and $4.9 million of his 2018 salary are guaranteed for injury and will become fully guaranteed on the 5th day of the waiver period in 2016 and 2017. The total guarantee is $61.542 million.